![]() ![]() ![]() Rich language deconstructs both feminine and masculine expectations, making the legend relevant to all modern-day audiences. It holds a magnifying glass up to society and in so doing offers a profound and beautiful journey about finding one’s own voice and self-realisation. A powerful and poetic read, it provides a visceral and thought-provoking reading experience for a modern era. Many of us will be familiar with the story of Perseus and his quest, but here the roles are reversed. Readers discover the motivations behind why Perseus came to the island where Medusa lived and become familiar with a more human side of Medusa as they access her innermost thoughts and feelings. Please consult our group leader information for guidance on taking part in shadowing.Ī modern, feminist reimaging of a Greek myth. Medusa’s narrative provides an in depth and descriptive account for how Medusa and her sisters came to be cursed as Gorgons by the goddess Athena. Bloomsbury Children's Books (13+) 9781408886939 (Hardback)ĭownload activities and reading resources pack ![]()
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![]() ![]() The story is a page-turner that offers insight into Irish politics and ancient Celtic culture, as well as some modern Irish slang, as Fergus’ choices lead him first down one path and then on to another as he longs to make sense of the world around him, past, present, and future. While his days are occupied with running, studying for exams, and first love, at night Mel comes to him in dreams to tell him her tale of love and sacrifice. Caught in the Troubles between his devotion to his brother Joe, a hunger-striker in Long Kesh prison, aka The Maze, and his growing friendship with Owain, a Welsh soldier in the British army who enlisted to avoid working in the Welsh mines, he finds distraction when he discovers the bog body while illegally cutting peat with his uncle Tully. to stave off the crop failure and starvation of a prolonged winter perhaps caused by the eruption of Mt. In the span of the book he discovers an ancient bog body, Mel, a young dwarf woman sacrificed in 80 A.D. Fergus, the main character, lives in a town bordering the Irish south and the British-occupied north. 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Praise for Nightblood:"Romantic and thrilling."- Booklist In this heart-pounding finale of Elly Blake's gorgeously written and action-packed Frostblood Saga, the fate of Frostbloods, Firebloods, and all of humanity is at stake. And the price of peace may be her very life. But will this tenuous connection-which threatens to consume her-be enough to hold the beasts back? With time running out, she must bring Frostbloods and Firebloods together to make a stand against an immortal foe more deadly than any she's faced. Ruby is able to control the shadows to a degree, even hosting one in her own body. Once freed, these beasts will roam the earth, devouring the spirits of every last person until he or she is nothing but an empty husk. And she may be a Nightblood-the spawn of a vengeful deity hellbent on releasing an imprisoned army of shadowy wraiths. She's in love with a powerful Frost King. ![]() Ruby's world has changed more than she ever could have imagined. The explosive finale of the New York Times bestselling Frostblood Saga, perfect for fans of Three Dark Crowns, Red Queen, and A Court of Thorns and Roses. ![]() ![]() Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it. Ghettostadt is the terrifying examination of the Jewish ghetto's place in the Nazi worldview. Central to the undertaking, however, was a crime of unparalleled dimension: the ghettoization, exploitation, and annihilation of the city's entire Jewish population. Home to prewar Poland's second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment-a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of urban planning and the arts. Language eng Summary "Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Łódź. ![]() Jews - Persecutions - Poland | Łódź - History.Label Ghettostadt : Łódź and the making of a Nazi city Title Ghettostadt Title remainder Łódź and the making of a Nazi city Statement of responsibility Gordon J. ![]() ![]() For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the Publisher. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.Ĭopyright © 2018 by Kate Jarvik Birch. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. The Perfected series is best enjoyed in order. If she can’t untangle the web of blackmail and lies that extends far beyond NuPet’s reach, she won’t just lose her chance at freedom, she’ll lose everyone she loves. ![]() But when her group gets implicated in a string of bombings, no one is safe. Now, with the help of a small group of rebels, Ella and Penn, the boy she’d give up her life for, set out to bring down NuPet for good. They aren’t planning mass rehabilitation…they’re planning a mass extermination. NuPet may have convinced the public of their intentions to assimilate pets back into society, but Ella knows it’s a lie. She never dreamed that it would backfire. Ella isn’t anyone’s pet anymore, but she’s certainly not free.Īfter exposing the dark secrets about NuPet’s breeding program, forcing them to repeal the law that allowed genetically modified girls to be kept as pets, she thought girls like her would finally be free. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout this work, Sutton connects and grounds cinema and photography as starting points to comprehend how we come to terms, ultimately, with time itself as pure, immanent change. ![]() He contrasts this taxonomy with representations of time in cinema since 1895, offering fresh readings of the films of the Lumière brothers and Mitchell & Kenyon, as well as more recent works including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amélie, and A Matter of Life and Death. He presents an innovative taxonomy of time in the photograph, considering particular representations of time in the work of Nan Goldin, Eugène Atget, Andy Warhol, and others. In Photography, Cinema, Memory, Damian Peter Sutton explores time in both media to present a radical new understanding of the photographic image as always coming into being.ĭrawing on Gilles Deleuze’s concept of the crystal image to move beyond the tropes of immobility, stasis, and death, Sutton’s analysis reveals the open-endedness of time expressed in the photograph, either as a potential for an abundant future or as a depth of meandering remembrance. Cinema and photography are both intimately associated with time-cinema with time in passing, the photograph with the lost moment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Unlike Carver or even Updike, he reveled in his status as a larger-than-life figure, a character in his own drama, so to speak.Ī prodigious smoker and drinker (“In one way, I suppose,” he acknowledges, “I have been ‘in denial’ for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light”), Hitchens was also an outspoken contrarian who would not willingly walk away from a fight. ![]() ![]() The whole cave of my chest and thorax seemed to have been hollowed out and then refilled with slow-drying cement.” For Hitchens, this felt very much like a “deportation … from the country of the well across the stark frontier that marks off the land of malady,” a sensation made more pronounced by the fact that he was stricken while on tour for his memoir “Hitch-22.” He was 61.Īll that makes for a peculiar set of tensions, which have as much to do with Hitchens as they do with death. But nothing prepared me for the early morning in June when I came to consciousness feeling as if I were actually shackled to my own corpse. ![]() Hitchens, who died of esophageal cancer in December 2011, sets the scene in the first sentences: “I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death. That’s because “Mortality” is not so much reflection as reportage, a set of dispatches from “Tumortown,” where the author found himself exiled in mid-2010. Those lines of Eliot’s appear in Christopher Hitchens’ “Mortality,” the latest addition to the library of the dying - although to read it on such terms exclusively is to miss the point. ![]() ![]() ![]() Katie encounters the harsh reality of life in the oil sands, where trauma is an everyday occurrence yet is never discussed.īeaton’s natural cartooning prowess is on full display as she draws colossal machinery and mammoth vehicles set against a sublime Albertan backdrop of wildlife, northern lights, and boreal forest. With the singular goal of paying off her student loans, Katie heads out west to take advantage of Alberta’s oil rush-part of the long tradition of East Coasters who seek gainful employment elsewhere when they can’t find it in the homeland they love so much. Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But the 1976 voyage of the Hōkūleʻa-guided by Micronesian navigator Pius “Mau” Piailug-resolved the debate. A most notable naysayer was ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl whose 1947 Kon Tiki raft expedition advanced the drift idea that colonization occurred only as vessels simply traveled on the tides. Skepticism over the validity of those navigational methods has long muddied the waters. Archaeological and linguistic evidence shows that navigators from Tahiti’s neighbor islands the Marquesas had settled the islands even earlier. When the Hōkūleʻa visits, Tahitians say, Maeva, a hoi mai, meaning “Welcome home.” There is a well-documented tradition of voyaging between the two island groups, and it is clear that in the 13th century, Tahitians used sophisticated navigational skills to travel the 2,500-mile distance and settle the Hawaiian Islands. As part of its three-year circumnavigation of the globe, the Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūleʻa arrived in Tahiti this summer on the first leg of its worldwide voyage. ![]() |